NSA spying: 20 great quotes

Recent reports that the National Security Agency spied on foreign leaders have sparked outrage around the world and have the Obama administration struggling to assuage allies, while some politicians in the U.S. are defending the practice.

“That intelligence capability is enormously important to the United States, to our conduct of foreign policy, to defense matters, [to] economic matters. And I am a strong supporter of it.” — Former Vice President Dick Cheney on CNN, Oct. 25